Historian Viacheslav Lytvynenko has come to Yale Divinity School to resume his research under the auspices of the Scholars at Risk program which provides a temporary, usually year-long, professional appointment to scholars, activists, writers, and artists who are facing persecution because of their work or another reason. The scholars might be fleeing from unsafe conditions or have been displaced and are looking for a permanent home. They receive financial support as well as personal and professional guidance from their host school or department at Yale. Lytvynenko, who arrived in New Haven in March 2023 and whose appointment will run through April 2024, has continued to feel the reverberations of the war in his academic work. 

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